The radio reports of the sudden tropical storm into which the freighter was heading caused the captain to order a change of course. “We’ll miss both Rio and Santos,” he told the mate. “And also the worst of the storm.”
This news made...
Ruth couldn’t commit murder—
• When Dave Tully returned from a business trip that night he found the house dark. At first he thought that Ruth, his wife, was out playing bridge and had been delayed. Then he had a caller.
• The...
When Santosh Wagh isn’t struggling out of a bottle of whisky, he’s head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world’s finest investigation agency.
In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times.
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Cleo Jasper, a beautiful woman in her early twenties, drops out of sight while attending an exclusive school for retarded young people. Shortly before her disappearance she had gone to the office of Tom Aragon, a young Hispanic lawyer, for what...
When a levee collapses in Hinowah, a small town in Northern California, Colter Shaw is brought on by his sister, Dorion, a disaster response specialist, to help locate a family swept away by the raging water, with mere hours to survive.
But...